DeepCaustics: Classification and Removal of Caustics From Underwater Imagery

Caustics are complex physical phenomena resulting from the projection of light rays being reflected or refracted by a curved surface. In this paper, we address the problem of classifying and removing caustics from images and propose a novel solution based on two convolutional neural networks: SalienceNet and DeepCaustics. Caustics result in changes in illumination that are continuous in nature; therefore, the first network is trained to produce...